Margaret Cook, Lionel Frost, Andrea Gaynor

Cities in a Sunburnt Country

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781108831581
• ISBN-10: 1108831583
• Artikelnr.: 63003114

Autorenporträt

Margaret Cook is an environmental historian, author of A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods (2019) and co-editor (with Scott McKinnon) of Disasters in Australia and New Zealand (2020). She was the recipient of the John and Ruth Kerr Medal of Distinction in History (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Prologue
2. Living water
3. Domesticating water
4. Keeping up
5. Transforming homes
6. Watering suburbia
7. Crises of confidence
8. Twenty-first century Australian cities
9. Epilogue.